The proposals would incur significant opposition from Republican lawmakers and organizations like the National Rifle Association.
Presidential candidate Cory Booker unveiled a suite of proposals on Monday aimed at tackling the growing epidemic of gun violence. The senator from New Jersey touted his reform package as “the most sweeping gun violence prevention proposal ever advanced by a presidential candidate.”
While previous attempts to regulate gun usage have been repudiated by federal courts, Jake Charles, executive director of the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, told Newsweek that the licensing proposal “would likely comport with current Second Amendment doctrine.” Booker, who unveiled the proposals as part of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, cited his background as Newark’s mayor as a reason for his hard-charging approach to gun violence reform.
Republicans widely criticized President Obama for taking executive action on climate change and other initiatives when he could not get Republicans in the House or Senate to work on bipartisan reforms. President Trump has similarly been lambasted for acting alone in seeking to ban travelers from predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S., among other divisive initiatives.
For example, Charles pointed to a current federal statute that prohibits regulators from adopting a national firearm registry, but noted that, just as when the President Trump’s Department of Justice successfully moved to ban bump stocks, some regulatory reform could be achieved within the current legal framework.
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